a b c Zimmer, Ben (April 14, 2017). " 'Woke', From a Sleepy Verb to a Badge of Awareness". Word on the Street. The Wall Street Journal. The term has been co-opted and diluted of meaning by lazy ideologues and bad-faith actors on the right, which is a shame, since it’s more poetic and evocative than any pithy substitute I can think of. The challenge for anyone interested in something deeper than culture-war point scoring is to develop new language of persuasion There is a pay gap for women, but you can identify as a man. Do bilogical men that identify as a woman get paid less?

Unlike traditional liberals, woke Americans place very little stake in value-neutral norms like freedom of speech and non-discrimination. As the antiracist activist Ibram Kendi says, “The only remedy to racist discrimination is antiracist discrimination. The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination.” Kendi also informs us that you can only be racist or anti-racist, there is no middle ground, echoing former president George W Bush’s instruction that “either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists”. Ramaswamy denies that systemic racism is a current American phenomenon. Why does he deny this? Because he’s conflating individual racial prejudice with de facto racial apartheid. He clearly does not understand the de jure racial government policies that are the literal foundation of the United States. From the Homestead Act, to the GI Bill, the FHA, HOLC, New Deal programs, the Drug War, 3 strikes felony charges, to subprime lending, the United States has the bones of a literal racial apartied. Ramaswamy doesn’t think for a minute that there is some residual systemic racial prejudice going on as a fallout from such race selective policies? The gall to deny that American institutions may have implicit race preference and to cast racism as a Woke-corporate charade is a sign of someone who hasn’t done a lot of reading and thinking outside his own echo chamber. So many arguments in the book are shaped into a choice of A vs B, with not much imagination spent on alternative options. The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists Are Murdering Our Past by Keith Windschuttle Understanding the speculative and overtly anti-liberal theories of these major left-wing figures will give the reader a thorough grasp of how the madness of Wokeism has infected the institutions of society and the thinking of the leaders who run them.

Woke has been weaponised, used in conservative media circles as an insult, often placed within quotation marks, to mean rigid, uptight and socially and politically puritanical. When the Duke and Duchess of Sussex decided to step away from their roles, the Daily Mail complained that Harry went from “fun loving bloke to the Prince of Woke”. Dropping 'woke' into conversation is an easy way to determine where someone sits on the political spectrum Corporations are unelected and so should not get involved in politics (“America was founded on the idea that we make our most important value judgments through our democratic process, where each citizen’s voice is weighted equally, rather than by a small group of elites in private. Debates about our social values belong in the civic sphere, not in the corner offices of corporate America.”) It seemed very curious to have so much dedicated to labeling the Uyghur genocide in China, yet be so angry at a ‘woke’ consumer who, learning their preferred clothing brand may source cotton through forced labor origins, decides to stop buying their clothes and shares their story with others. There is perhaps no better data driven work (including deep statistical analysis) which exams the insanity of the pandemic. The mass formation theory put forward by Desmet will be discussed for years to come. And I believe, this book will equip the reader with the knowledge necessary to spot irrationality and avoid being swept up in the hysteria of fear driven totalitarian mass formation.

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Sadler, Rachel (June 15, 2020). "Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern should 'stop being so woke' – Judith Collins". Newshub . Retrieved January 7, 2023. a b Poole, Steven (December 25, 2019). "From woke to gammon: buzzwords by the people who coined them". The Guardian. A parent in Leander, an Austin suburb, asked for this book, which features a subplot about a teenager who’s starting to notice his attraction to other boys, to be removed because the parent didn't believe "books should discuss sensitive/controversial topics such as gender, sexuality." 5. "Five, Six, Seven, Nate!" by Tim Federle Simon and Schuster